Thoughts on speed dating?

[LordFall]

I'd be curious for feedback for people that have attended them. I haven't yet, will give it a go for my own dating life but also thinking of running them for my dating business. 

Was it worth it? How did you like the people there? Would you go again/recommend it to a friend? 

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[Valach]

@LordFall

I have attended multiple in the last year. Probably because at some point I just got lazy with meeting people and there was this event being thrown regularly in a coffee place like 5 minutes from mine, so it was very convenient.

The setup was simple and same as you can see in movies. There were about ~15 tables with woman sitting and men were rotating after 5 minutes with a break in the middle.

Most of the woman I did not click with, but that happens every time if you select random 15 woman from population. But I had dates off of it with some really nice ladies so I had fair share of success off of it I guess - got plenty of "likes" pretty much everytime. From my understanding most of the guys on there really struggled with getting likes, but that's how it is with dating.

Not sure there is any specific advice I could share. It's just 5 minutes so you really do not have much time to feel off the vibe of the person. What you can do and what I did is to stay after the event to catch a drink and chit chat with the woman you liked (get's little complicated if you liked multiple). Also coming in early can be nice advantage if you first table is a woman you like because you get a lot more time with her (but I always came dead last lol). 

All the woman there arrive in groups, so it can be nice to make a good impression on even the ones you do not like since they have their friends there and you know..woman talk. But that depends on how gamey you want to be. Do you have any specific questions regarding this?

 

Also, I know you are from Canada. I am an european so there might be some cultural differences between the events I went to and the ones in Canada.

Edited 2 hours ago by Valach

[LordFall]

Cool thanks for sharing. It sounds like a great event format. Will you try it again?

[Valach]

1 minute ago, LordFall said:

Cool thanks for sharing. It sounds like a great event format. Will you try it again?

In the future, I might. I am not dating at the moment.

[LastThursday]

I've tried a few of them. Speed dating's fun if you're comfortable talking to lots of different types and you don't take it too seriously. It's good because you're all in the same situation which takes away the hard bit of working out if someone is "receptive". On the other hand five minutes per person is only really going to tell you if there's an attraction there not much else.